WAT'S THIS? More of that dubstep stuff I hear the kids talking about these days? Newcomer Teagan Kelk sends us this intuitively-titled dubstep electronica mix, with a similarly to-the-point email:

"A dubstep mix of the Bowser Fight music from Super Mario RPG / Super Mario Bros 3.Mixed by Teagan Kelk, who wishes he had a sick DJ name."

Don't we all... oh wait. Teagan's looking for wub in all the RIGHT places - I'll keep my writeup relatively short and basically offer that if you're into the style, this is more or less what you'd expect from Teagan's description. The bass is certainly face, and pretty ace as well, and the artist throws some changeups into his pitching w/ a couple nice transitions. It seems like dubstep draws visceral reactions from both its supporters and detractors, with some finding the trademark lowend wobble a little gimmicky, but I'm not a huge advocate of the zillions of electronica subgenres, and even I feel like there's something different and often worthwhile with the genre. It seems like a substantive enough set of attributes & a memorable, identifiable enough aesthetic that it will be around awhile and work its way into other genres if and when it fades. Could be dead wrong, though - either way, Teagan's mix has a lot of what's good about dubstep, varies things up more than enough to stay interesting, and wub-wubs its indulgent way into your mind.

Discussion

I usually don't like 'badly made' dubstep, but I think this is
perfectly valid dubstep. It's a little borderline annoying, but
not a dealbreaker to me. I for one fully support constantly
evolving dubstep songs.

I just wish the wobbles were a bit quieter to allow the leads to
come through, but aside from that, I like it, especially the part
at 2:06. Pretty sweet textures there.

Hahaha! These have all been interesting and funny to read.
Honestly I don't even care that there's a lot of negative
feedback, it's just awesome to have so many people talking about
something that I created. It's a cool feeling.

This track was my first one ever, and from being a drummer I was
accustomed to using one limb to hit each drum/cymbal so I guess I
thought it would be okay to use a drum machine similarly, with
crap drum samples. I also had no patience or appreciation for
production techniques.

So there are a lot of things I know I could improve in this
track, but I still love it for what it is. I'm glad that some of
you do too.

The wobble in the beginning goes on for far too long IMO;
personally, I find it incredibly annoying.

The "cleaner" part starting around the 1:00 mark is actually
quite awesome; it reminds me of mid-90s PS1 music.

With the siren coming in around 1:40, we're right back into
annoyance territory, though.

The following breakdown and build-up starting around 2:10 is very
awesome again; same goes for ~2:50 onwards.

Dunno, but to me, it seems that everything about this remix is
good except for the wubwub and the siren. However, taking that
out would result in a very different song; certainly not one to
be qualified as dubstep.

The main reason why I liked/like this mix is because I wasn't
expecting this theme to ever be arranged in a
dubstep/electronic/whatever kind of way, so i enjoyed the
reinterpretation much more than the production values.

the samples/sounds are extremely lo-fi (compared to other dubstep
tracks, or even Teagan's more recent tracks), but it
gave me an snes nostalgic appreciation rather than a turn off.

as i said in my earlier post, it's not a memorable dubstep track
but it's a pretty good re-arrangement of the source.

clearly, this would've been grandma's famous bees knees signature
pimp-sauce strudel if it came out two years ago, but this mix
showed up to the dubstep party a bit late.

Ha, this mix brought controversy unexpectedly. I feel like the
execution in this mix is lacking in the production arena. The
wubs are not nice and fat with the low end, and the synths are
lacking. The song fares better later on, but those issues being
fixed really could help the enjoyability of the mix I feel. The
arrangement is pretty good here, it's just a bunch of
production issues that sort of drag it down some for me.

Well, you have to remember Bahamut, dubstep evolved quite a bit
since this track was submitted to OCR.

Ha, this mix brought controversy unexpectedly. I feel like the
execution in this mix is lacking in the production arena. The
wubs are not nice and fat with the low end, and the synths are
lacking. The song fares better later on, but those issues being
fixed really could help the enjoyability of the mix I feel. The
arrangement is pretty good here, it's just a bunch of production
issues that sort of drag it down some for me.

Oh wow, yeah. I'm right with you there, this sounds SO much
better. Punchier drums, more changeups, a much more cohesive
bassline and soundscape... I dig this.

That just further confirms my suspicion that this mix had the
unfortunate luck of being submitted right when dubstep was a
budding genre that probably had not been explored by anyone on
the site... but then during the year or so that it was in limbo
waiting to be posted, the genre evolved at such a rapid pace that
the mix ended up sounding WAY more dated than it would have at
the time it was created. I still don't feel like it's a strong
mix even with that taken into consideration, but I'd definitely
like to hear another submission in this style from Teagan that
sounds more like the Fire Emblem mix that CC Ricers linked. I
think it would go over a lot better. It's nice to know that
Teagan's got it in him to make something a little bit more in
line with the kind of quality expected from modern dubstep.

Don't really like dubstep, Anything with too much Bass rubs me
the wrong way but... Probably because of the original tunes being
to my liking...Kudos to this mix. Considering I don't post often
on the boards... Shows something about it, Again, Good job on the
mix!

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